[OpenIndiana-discuss] Diagnosis help needed

[Martin Frost]

 > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:06:07 -0400
 > From: Ray Arachelian <ray at arachelian.com>
 > OpenPGP: id=E556D4A0
 > 
 > On 06/25/2012 03:31 PM, michelle wrote:
 > > I did a hard reset and moved the drive to another channel.
 > >
 > > The fault followed the drive so I'm certain it is the drive, as people
 > > have said.
 > >
 > > The thing that bugs me is that this ZFS fault locked up the OS - and
 > > that's a real concern.
 > >
 > > I think I'm going to need to have a hard think about my options and
 > > possibly leave OI for FreeNAS, Nexenta or Schillix.
 > >
 > 
 > My guess is that since all the pools are by default set to have failmode
 > set to "wait" on failure, it'll wait forever.
 > 
 > Now, changing it to "continue" which will return an error, but it could
 > lead to worse behavior in some cases.  (You could set it to panic also,
 > but you'll like that far less.)

Why should it return an error when no data has been lost yet, given
the redundancy (which is all that's lost so far)?

Martin